Helter Smelter

Smelting large quantities of copper for your big survival projects can be a very long and unpleasant process. This data pack adds a new way to smelt ores rapidly, allowing you to cook up to a stack of raw ore block in a few seconds. There is only one straight to the point feature but very focused on immersiveness, visual effects, balance and integration to vanilla features (give new and cool use to vanilla cauldrons)

How to smelt your ores?

-Craft your raw ores into blocks

-While in front of a lava cauldron, right click it with a batch of raw ore blocks (up to a full stack). 

-The raw ore block appears inside the cauldron. After 10 seconds, it visually changes into it's metal block counterpart and starts to emit smoke and noises (it's cooked). 

-Left click on the metal block in the cauldron to drop your batch of metal blocks. You have 50 seconds to pick it up when cooked before it burns and disapears. Cauldron is ready to re-use although cooking process can sometimes empty the lava and require a refill!

-The items you just picked up are too hot and now apply fire damage to you if kept in your inventory. To cool them down, simply place them or drop them in the water, under the rain or on snow/ice.  

-This pack also adds a recipe to cook raw ore blocks in a classic way via a blast furnace. Cooking a raw block ore will take 9 times longer and give 9 times more xp than cooking a raw ore item.

Balancing

This pack is designed to not to make the game easier (less smelting, more building), not to make the game easier. As such, this smelting method presents several disadvantages, especially for early game, to avoid interfering with normal game progression. 

-Manual feature with constant surveillance required (1 min between beginning of cooking and burning)

-Almost no experience is given by cooking in cauldron

-Lava cauldrons regularly require to be refilled after cooking to make this process difficult for players without access to nether and encourage the creation of lava farms. 

-Blocks smelted that way create burning damage when you carry them until you actively cool them down. 

Why this datapack?

This datapack is first and foremost done as a personal effort to customise my 8 years survival world. On one hand, this means that I built this datapack to be very open to feedback and suggestions (I hope) and that it is likely going to be very open to feedback and suggestions in the future. As such, you can easily add this pack to your long-term worlds without being too scared of future world corruption or malfunctions. On the other hand, it means that although I am very open to feedback and suggestions, I will only add the features that I see fit for my world and my long-term vision for it.